{"id":12820,"date":"2014-08-03T10:31:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T15:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12820"},"modified":"2014-08-03T10:31:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T15:31:39","slug":"nytimes-the-ethicist-campus-police-precrime-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12820","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: The Ethicist: Campus Police: Precrime Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/03\/magazine\/campus-police-precrime-division.html?ref=todayspaper&#038;_r=0\">The Ethicist: Campus Police: Precrime Division<\/a> by Chuck Klosterman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I study computer science at a midsize university, and my school has cameras that cover almost every part of campus. The development of video-processing algorithms that can discern race, height and approximate age is ongoing in the field. Already, some modern video systems can alert owners of loitering, abnormal behavior and other common precursors to crime. Would it be ethical to hone the university security system to calculate and publicize the real-time probability of impending crime based on live video processing and existing statistics on criminal demographics?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: The Ethicist: Campus Police: Precrime Division by Chuck Klosterman: I study computer science at a midsize university, and my school has cameras that cover almost every part of campus. The development of video-processing algorithms that can discern race, height &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12820\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12821,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12820\/revisions\/12821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}